Everyone's reaction to a given post is different, which makes putting value judgements on them rather silly.

As a practical example, the post you mention actually made me, personally, laugh. Since I was compiling the post, it wouldn't have occurred to me to "warn" anyone.

Besides, there are things on WFA that seem a lot more offensive or annoying to me personally that other people actually enjoy and link around. I'd likely warn about those, leading other people, who find them worthwhile, not to read them.

I'm afraid, WFA is a crapshoot. You might like what you see, you might not. But, really, it's a risk you'll have to take. No one's forcing any of you to click the links, after all.

I am so gushingly glad you found the post about of Elastigirl's "holes of any shape or size", the lovely dropping in of the word "bulldyke", and the assertion that Wonder Woman would never be cast as "some ugly chick" amusing. However, how this can in any way qualify as "discussion" of gender in comics is beyond me.

I may not have come to WFA looking for people who agree with me, but I was looking for bloggers making arguments that make me think.

Lea, I'm sorry that my blog doesn't conform to your high standards but you don't get to decide what's on topic here. We do.

Like it or not, that qualifies. You're just going to have to face the fact that when you ask certain people in shop what they think about women in comics, a list of fantasy sex toys is what you'll get for an answer.

God, can you bitches please shut the hell up? I can't watch the game over your caterwauling.

Seriously, though. One of the reasons I think WFA works is that Ragnell and Kalinara do their level best to avoid any sort of editorialization, leaving it up to the readers to make judgments. If you're not capable of doing that without blaming the messenger, then maybe you should maintain your own damn blog.

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